Areas in Sardinia, Okinawa and Greece are supposedly home to unusual numbers of centenarians. Scientists are studying them to ...

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Mount Fuji, the country’s tallest summit, is revered for its snowy peak. A snowfall reported on Wednesday ended its longest ...

Today, the anime fandom is coming together to mourn the loss of an immense artist. Reports from Japan have confirmed the death of Shigemi Ikeda. The artist passed away this month just shy of his 70th ...

Photos play an important role in understanding history. They offer visual evidence of both pivotal events and everyday life that written records alone sometimes cannot fully convey. Through images, we ...

THE "world's oldest" pyramid in the Java jungle may be a whopping 25,000 years old - but archaeologists have eerily claimed it isn't man-made. Despite the world record holder being listed as the ...

making her the oldest person in the United States and the third oldest person in the world. Francis was one of the few people classified as a supercentenarian, a person who lives to be older than 110.

Ashoro (Japan), Apr 11 (ANI): A 112-year-old Japanese man, Masazo Nonaka, was recognised as the world’s oldest man by the Guinness World Records on April 10. He was born on July 25, 1905 ...

Movies are often accused of sugarcoating the realities of the world's oldest profession. Here are 13 examples. If you're saying "Breakfast at Tiffany's?," yes! Breakfast at Tiffany's. Though the ...

ABC13 Houston last encountered Elizabeth Francis on her 114th birthday back in June, when she was bestowed with the title of the oldest living ... living through two World Wars, two plagues ...